Baku-APA. Mozambique's former rebel movement, Renamo, boycotted talks with the government on Monday to discuss the country's prevailing political crisis, APA reports quoting Xinhua.
Renamo led by Afonso Dhlakama demands the presence of local and foreign facilitators during the talks, who had left at the beginning of this year.
The Frelimo party-led government refused it, regarding the Renamo's boycott as an abandonment of the talks to discuss ways of integrating former Renamo fighters, who had not been disarmed under the Rome peace agreement signed in 1992 into the Mozambican Defense Force (FADM).
The government and Renamo are at loggerhead since last year, mainly because Renamo accused the government of not honoring the 1992 peace treaty that ended the 16-year civil war between Renamo and the ruling Frelimo party.
The two sides clashed in May in central Mozambique, leaving several government security forces and Renamo fighters dead and dozens injured.
Tension ratcheted up after the Mozambican troops stormed Renamo' s main base in the mountainous Gorongosa region in October, where its leader Dhlakama had been staying.
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